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Tausig, Carl : Toccata und Fuge für Orgel d-moll BWV 565

Work Overview

Music ID : 16875
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:transcription
Total Playing Time:9 min 30 sec
Copyright:Public Domain
Original/Related Work: Bach, Johann SebastianToccata und Fuge

Commentary (1)

Author : Takasu, Hiroshi

Last Updated: January 1, 2010
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

This piece, one of the most beloved among the numerous organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), a master of Baroque music and the father of European music, is believed to have been composed in the early period of his Arnstadt years (1703-1717). In any case, it is a work overflowing with the intense emotions of the young Bach in his twenties, and a youthful, powerful energy and individuality that overwhelms the listener, exemplified by its free structure that incorporates a fugue within a toccata.

Carl Tausig (1841-1871) was Liszt's most important pupil, whose "brazen" fingers Liszt himself highly praised, and a legendary pianist who died at the young age of 30, despite being said to have elevated pure virtuosity to a level that Liszt himself only hinted at. As Tausig himself described this arrangement as a "free transcription for piano," brilliant pianism is boldly introduced, making it a romantic work for piano, in contrast to Busoni's neoclassical arrangement which aimed to faithfully reproduce the solemn characteristics of the original organ piece.

Writer: Takasu, Hiroshi

Movements (2)

Toocata

Total Performance Time: 3 min 00 sec 

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Fuge

Total Performance Time: 6 min 30 sec 

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